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Friday, August 31, 2012

The Calm Before the Tailgate Storm

Beer #265 Le Petite Prince / Jester King Craft Brewery, Austin, TX

Brief update, as it's one of my favorite days of the year - the night before the first home PSU game.  Campus is alive again, the weather is stupendous, and the tailgate should be in full force.  Let's do this, people!

Today's beer is Le Petite Prince, a farmhouse ale from Jester King Craft Brewery.  This beer has a pale yellow color, and the aroma is light and funky.  You get light flavors of lemon, with mild hops and some peppery spice.  Easy drinking, and quite tasty.

Pay no attention to the man on the bottle

This is another example of a great tasting beer with a very reasonable ABV - a meager 2.8%.  Much less than your typical macro lite beer, in fact.  Is the artwork on the bottle a tad bit creepy?  Sure, it's hugely creepy, but don't let that stop you from buying and drinking this beer.  We're visiting Texas later this year, and we intend to stop by and pay this brewery a visit.

Thing to Think About Today:
So, we're down to the final two movies of "college week", and I've obviously saved the best for last.  Today's movie is Revenge of the Nerds - a movie that made me very seriously consider the fact that I probably wanted to join a fraternity in college.

This classic movie is an "us vs. them" tale, as nerds get kicked out of their house when the jock fraternity house burns down after a party.  The nerds realize that they won't be on a level playing field until they join a fraternity and get a seat on something called Greek Council.  When no other fraternity will allow them to start a new chapter... well... because they're nerds, they look to bring a new organization to campus, Lambda Lambda Lambda.  Once they move in, it's war between the jocks and the geeks, culminating in the Greek Carnival, where the Tri Lams eventually find themselves victorious courtesy of their superior intellect.

This movie boasts an incredibly star studded cast, a killer soundtrack highlighted by the Talking Heads, some gratuitous nudity, elaborate pranks, improbably awesome characters, and huge amount of quotable lines.  It's an absolutely amazing movie, and stands the test of time - it's as funny today as it was back when you first watched this film.  Get back into the spirit of college, and check this classic out again soon.


And, just because it's a mind blowing scene and I have this song on my iPod, I present this song:


"NEERRRDDDDS! NERDS, NERDS, NERDS, NERDS....."

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